American Naturalist

Article	Citations
Front and Back Matter	370
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Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change	40
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse	39
Front and Back Matter	32
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History	30
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations	30
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish	27
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna	27
When Does the Probability of Evolutionary Rescue Increase with the Strength of Selection despite a Potential Demographic Cost?	26
Front and Back Matter	24
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models	23
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy	23
Maintenance and breakdown: how population dynamics determine the evolutionary fate of Batesian mimicry	22
Front and Back Matter	21
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey	21
Milking It: Repeated Postweaning Suckling Events in Galápagos Sea Lions ( Zalophus wollebaeki )	20
Front and Back Matter	20
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms	20
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations	20
Not all sexual monomorphisms evolve equally: female and male ornamentation in Tyranni passerines	20
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density	19
From Fear to Feast: Rattlesnakes Navigate the Landscape of Fear to Optimize Foraging	18
A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence	18

Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs	18
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish	17
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)	17
Linking Genomic Offset Statistics to the Shape of Selection Gradients	17
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes	17
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness	17
On Pachycephalosaurs, Trade-Offs, and the Historical Genesis of Sociosexual Display Structures	17
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies	17
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites	16
Rethinking Tipping Points in Spatial Ecosystems	16
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps	16
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift	15
Front and Back Matter	15
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Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet	15
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds	15
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice	15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees	15
Longevity Hinders Evolutionary Rescue through Slower Growth but Not Necessarily Slower Adaptation	14
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive	14
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor	14
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard	14
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities	14
Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change	14
Pollinator and Flower Morphology Interact to Affect Pollen Receipt	14
Deconstructing the Morphological Basis of Ecogeographic Variation in the Hand-Wing Index, a Widely Used Proxy for Avian Mobility, in the Yellow Warbler ( Setophaga petechia	14
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males	13
The Geometry of Macroevolution: Phenotypic Evolution on Non-Euclidean Manifolds	13
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities	13
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network	13
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards	13
Front and Back Matter	13
Physiological Color Change in the Neotropical Tree Frog ( Pithecopus hypochondrialis ) as a Potential Mechanism of Nocturnal Camouflage	12
An origin for the allometric scaling of mammalian fat reflects populations living on the edge	12
Positional Intraclutch Variation in Egg Shape Associated with Maternal Guarding in a Shield Bug	12
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist	12
The Evolution of Mate Attachment	12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization	12
The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary	12
Sex Allocation and Reproductive Success in a Perennial Hermaphroditic Herb: Both Size and Timing Matter	12
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors	12
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales	12
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants	12
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism	12
How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms	12
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments	12
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog	12
Shielded by the Dead: How Killed Bacteria Shape the Dynamics and Evolution of Innate Immunity	12
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish	12
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks	12

Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers	12
Corrigendum	12
Secretary’s Report, 2023	11
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories	11
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes	11
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes	11
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird	11
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality	11
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited	11
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission	11
Bargain to Be Dominant	11
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster	11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window	11
Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis	11
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection	11
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix	10
Front and Back Matter	10
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology	10
Raptor Perception of Mismatch in Seasonally Polyphenic Prey	10
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects	10
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate	10
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders	10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities	10
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating	10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)	10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory	10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms	10
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation	10
Relict Savanna or Degraded Forest? Reinterpreting Open Woodlands in Sierra de Gredos (Central Spain)	10
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes	9
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny	9
The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses	9
Rensch’s Rule Is Not Supported by a Mammals-Wide Analysis	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods	9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees	9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster	9
The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future	9
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss	9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator	9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish	9
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems	9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes	9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains	9
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)	9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons ( Papio cynocephalus )	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations	9
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Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars	8
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids	8
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense	8
Front and Back Matter	8
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation	8
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists	8
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics	8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage	8
Demographic consequences of partner diversity and turnover in a multispecies ant-plant mutualism	8
A Variance Partitioning Approach Identifies the Absence of Mate Choice and the Lack of Forced Copulation in the Water Strider Gerris gracilicornis	8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition	8
The Characteristics of Inducible Defenses Influence Predator-Prey Dynamics	8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance	8
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) Range Expansion	8
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers	8
Harnessing gene knockouts to study selection and aid conservation	8
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance	8
Front and Back Matter	8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities	8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce	8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales	8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga	8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis	8
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons	8
When Correcting for Regression to the Mean Is Worse Than No Correction at All	8
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation	8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming	8
Secretary’s Report, 2025	8
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio	8
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test	8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations	8

Perspective: Intransitive Eco-Evolutionary Feedback Loops Maintain Coexistence	8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change	8
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics	7
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds	7
Sex allocation in nonstandard haplodiploids	7
Revisiting dilution and barrier to better disentangle their effects on epidemics	7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change	7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales	7
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes	7
Secretary’s Report, 2024	7
Allee Effects and Coexistence	7
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent	7
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review	7
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates	7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Evolution of Threespine Stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) Defensive Traits following the Stocking of Brook Trout ( Salvelinus	7
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change	7
Hot-Dry Weather Is Associated with Worse Reproductive Outcomes Regardless of Group Composition in a Long-Lived Cooperatively Breeding Bird	7
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients	7
Learned Sex Discrimination and the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior	7
Front and Back Matter	7
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Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection	6
Interactions between Mechanisms of Reproductive Isolation	6
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling	6
In Memoriam	6
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna	6
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships	6
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms	6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits	6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog	6
2025 Publication Awards	6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution	6
Positive Association between Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism and Male-Skewed Operational Sex Ratio in Anurans	6
Mind if I chime in? Sexually competitive females under Darwinian sex roles: a case study with Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)	6
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons	6
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks	6
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations	6
Seminal Fluid Proteins as Regulation Factors for Optimizing Reproduction: A Modeling Approach	6
Forecasting Genomic Change with Time Series Sequence Data	6
Front and Back Matter	6
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma	6
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat	6
Molting Strategy Influences Vulnerability to Climate Change in Migratory Birds	6
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations	6
Morphological and Ecological Predictors of Migration in Shorebirds (A Phylogenetic Perspective)	6
The Baldwin Effect Reloaded: Intermediate Levels of Phenotypic Plasticity Favor Evolutionary Rescue	6
Predation, evo-devo, and historical contingency: A nematode predator drives evolution of aggregative multicellularity	5
Selection and Admixture in a Polytypic Aposematic Frog	5
Brood Parasites That Care: Alternative Nesting Tactics in a Subsocial Wasp	5
The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Cooperation	5
An Elevational Phylogeographic Diversity Gradient in Neotropical Birds Is Decoupled from Speciation Rates	5
Differential Stage-Specific Mortality as a Mechanism for Diversification	5
Better Together: Offspring Benefit from Siblings in Both the Absence and the Presence of Parents	5
Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya	5
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors	5
Within-Host Viral Growth and Immune Response Rates Predict Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Transmission Dynamics for African Buffalo	5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits	5
Are There Ecological Consequences of Urban Adaptation? A Test of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Terrestrial Isopod ( Oniscus asellus )	5
Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients	5
Coevolution of Patch Selection in Stochastic Environments	5
The Challenge of Genomic Forecasting in an Era of Global Change	5
Differential Survival and Background Selection in Cryptic Trunk-Dwelling Arthropods in Fire-Prone Environments	5
Bayesian Prediction of Multivariate Ecology from Phenotypic Data Yields New Insights into the Diets of Extant and Extinct Taxa	5
Evolutionary Lability of Sexual Selection and Its Implications for Speciation and Macroevolution	5
Repeating Historical Studies to Understand Functional Responses to Environmental Change	5
The role of song in a secondary contact zone between two coastal white-crowned sparrow subspecies	5
Shifts in Mutation Bias Promote Mutators by Altering the Distribution of Fitness Effects	5
What Ecological Factors Favor Parthenogenesis over Sexual Reproduction? A Study on the Facultatively Parthenogenetic Mayfly Alainites muticus in Natural	5
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks ( Eremophila alpestris )	5
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals	5
Niche Specificity, Polygeny, and Pleiotropy in Herbivorous Insects	5
A Quantitative Survey of Cogradient and Countergradient Variation in Nature	5
Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution	5
Impacts of Epistasis, Recombination, and Genome Architecture on Population Recovery following Radical Habitat Change	5
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird	5
Antifragility: A Cross-Cutting Concept for Understanding Ecological Responses to Variability	5
Neotropical Birds Respond Innately to Unfamiliar Acoustic Signals	5
Heterogeneous Predation, Community Asynchrony, and Metacommunity Stability in Cyanobacterial Mats	5
Unequal Reproduction Early in a Social Transition: Insights from Invasive Wasps	5
Front and Back Matter	5
A Disturbing View of Life History Evolution	5
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production	5
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors	5
Front and Back Matter	5
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm	5
Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species	5
Density-Dependent Selection during Range Expansion Affects Expansion Load in Life History Traits	5
Front and Back Matter	5